The UFAW Journal - Animal Welfare

ISSN 0962-7286

This journal offers Gold and Green Open Access

Animal Welfare is an international scientific and technical journal. It publishes the results of peer-reviewed scientific research, technical studies and reviews relating to the welfare of kept animals (eg on farms, in laboratories, zoos and as companions) and of those in the wild whose welfare is compromised by human activities. Papers on related ethical and legal issues are also considered for publication. The journal also includes letters to the editor, commentary on topical issues such as developments in legislation and codes of practice relating to animal welfare and book reviews.

Regular issues of Animal Welfare are published 4 times a year (both on paperand on-line at IngentaConnect – see below) and supplementary issues (eg comprising the proceedings of international conferences on animal welfare science) are published on occasions.

Animal Welfare is abstracted in Biological Abstracts; CAB Abstracts; Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Sciences; Current Primate References; EMBASE; Focus on: Veterinary Science & Medicine; Humans & Other Species; Research Alert; SciSearch; Toxicology Abstracts; Veterinary Update; is indexed in Zoological Record; and is covered by the Science Citation Index.

A full list of Contents and full Abstracts of all papers in Animal Welfare can be viewed on this website (see link below) or at IngentaConnect. Individual papers can also be purchased from IngentaConnect.

Animal Welfare will consider submissions of articles recommended by PCI Animal Science and may use PCI reviews and recommendations for their own review processes, if appropriate.

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Open Access

The Journal allows a variety of options to authors for open access. For details see instructions for authors.

Access in developing countries

In pursuit of its charitable objective to promote welfare through education and to make the welfare information published by UFAW accessible to a wide worldwide audience, UFAW has partnered with HINARI a World Health Organisation programme to make Animal Welfare available online, free or at very low cost, to staff members and students in qualifying not-for-profit organisations based in developing countries throughout the World. Organisations in these countries able to access the journal include national universities, medical schools (including nursing, pharmacy, public health, and dentistry schools), research institutes, teaching hospitals and healthcare centres, government offices, national medical libraries and local non-governmental organisations (a list is available at this address http://www.research4life.org/institutions/). The journal is also linked through the OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment) scheme led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the AGORA program (Access to Global Online Resources in Agriculture), set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN.

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